Bolton: U.S. Formally Withdrawing from Nuclear Treaty in ‘Due Course’

National Security Adviser John Bolton said Wednesday that the U.S. will give formal notice of withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia “in due course,” thereby allowing the U.S. to restart once-prohibited missile activities.

Bolton said earlier in October that the U.S. would be leaving the 1987 treaty, which bans the testing, production, and possession of ground-launched cruise and ballistic missiles. Russia has been in violation of the treaty for at least four years.